John Brown Research Paper

John Brown, What do you think of him? New york times here explaining his story. John Brown was born on 1800 in Torrington, Connecticut. His father believed holding humans in boundage was a sin against god, which is one of the factors that lead him to John attacking the arsenal. John Brown was always a fighter, his didn’t and can’t take orders from others. For incidence, when his father asked him to join his successful tannery, he refused and opened his own to compete against his father.
John Brown’s early life tragedy surely had affected him into fighting slavery in a violent way. First, in 1812, when John Brown was 12, he lodged with a man who own a slave boy, John was treated well, but the slave boy was beaten right in front of his eyes, the memory will hunt John Brown for the rest of his life. John brown’s first wife died in 1832, shortly after their newborn. In 1833, his growing family have a huge economic hardship on the family. However, these are just couple of examples of the failures in his early life. These including only 11 of his twenty children survived until adulthood.

When Elijah Lovejoy(abolitionist writer) was killed in 1837 by a proslavery mob, John Brown vowed in public for the first time that he will end slavery.

However, his vow won’t be fulfilled until 1855 when he followed his sons to Kansas to fight against slavery. In May of 1856, John led several men to Pottawatomie Creek and murdered 5 proslavery settlers. In January of 1858, John Brown rides into Missouri and attacked two proslave home steads, destroying property and freeing 11 slaves. Then, he traveled 82 days and traveled over 1000 miles to bring the slaves to Canada. In the end, John Brown believes that slaves should be free in America and that the fight against slavery should be done by

violence.
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry surely shocked many people, whether they consider him as a hero who fighted for his beliefs, or they consider him as a person who is guilty of murder and treason. But though different people believed different things, many can agree that his raid on Harpers Ferry is the first step toward the civil war, and finally the end of slavery. His effects in the North and the South after the raid is huge, it started to split the North and the South. But John Brown effects in the long run is even larger. He considerably have started the civil war and he encouraged more Northerner to fight against slavery using violence.
John Brown have casted different kinds of shadows on people, some were good, some were bad. What do you think? In my personal opinion, John Brown is a hero and a man who crazy. His actions were certainly for the right reason and he fought for his beliefs until he died. Though I agree to his beliefs, his actions are extremely violent. If you want to sumit your opinion of John Brown, please write to 56 Curtis street, NYC, NY. This is New York Times, I’ll see you tomorrow.